Wednesday, May 19, 2010
(photo: southern4life.blogspot.com)
While homosexuals in the United States and some European countries continue to fight for the right to marry, some heterosexual couples want only to be in a civil union and have no interest in marriage.
In France, 95% of couples joining in that’s country’s version of civil unions (pacte civil de solidarité) are heterosexual.
In Austria, Helga Ratzenboeck and Martin Seydl are suing the government to obtain a “registered partnership” because they don’t want a traditional marriage. They argue that the partnerships, created for gays and lesbians, should be available to everyone.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
Austrians Seek Right to Partnership Created for Gays (by Phil Cain, BBC News)
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